Radical Republicans Challenge Presidential Reconstruction

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

• rebuilding the US after a big earthquake
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War
• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

Why did Southern states pass Black Codes immediately following the Civil War?

• to limit the rights of newly freed African Americans

• to expand the power of ex-Confederate leaders

• to give Southern women voting rights

• to jail carpetbaggers

Following the passage of the 13th Amendment, many Southern state governments enacted Black Codes.

When the Radical Republicans in Congress took control of Reconstruction, they responded to the discriminatory Black Codes by passing the --

• Civil Rights Acts of 1866

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Reconstruction Acts

• Articles of Impeachment for Andrew Johnson.

What organization created public education, health care and training in the South for freedmen?

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the Radical Republicans

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• the Carpetbaggers

What did the 14th Amendment do?

• It made slavery illegal.

• It made formerly enslaved peoples citizens and granted them full legal rights.

• It gave formerly enslaved black men the right to vote.

• It gave formerly enslaved peoples land to begin farms.

How did sharecropping impact formerly enslaved peoples?

• These new agriculture jobs made them rich.

• These new agriculture jobs left them in a cycle of debt.

• These challenge of securing these coveted jobs led to economic competition.

• These new agriculture jobs didn't interest them and freedmen moved North.

As sharecroppers, freedmen were given a place to live, seeds, and equipment by a former plantation owner in exchange for growing crops on a former plantation.

The land owner would decide how large of a ________ of the all crops grown he deserved in payment for rent & how much he would pay for that ________. (1 word, 2x)

• share

• ownership

• division

• parcel

When the Radical Republicans took control of Reconstruction, they passed the Reconstruction Acts which divided the South into how many military districts to be governed by American soldiers?

• 2

• 4

• 5

• 7

During the Reconstruction Era many Radical Republicans passed legislative reforms that were designed to --

• support the passage of the black codes in the former Confederate states

• actively resist the Wade-Davis Bill that granted equal rights to African Americans

• give economic opportunities and political rights to the newly freed slaves

• create lenient measures to make it easy for the southern states to rejoin the Union

Which of the following presidents was the first ever President to be impeached during Reconstruction for firing the Secretary of War who was in charge of the military districts of the South?

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Ulysses Grant

• Andrew Johnson

• Samuel Tilden